Ep. 107 - Are Colleges Destroying Race Relations? ft. Prof. Carol Swain
The Michael Knowles Show
The Michael Knowles Show
4.7 • 29.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | Statute toppling, shrieking girls, white supremacists, safe spaces, trigger warnings and English degrees without reading Shakespeare. |
| 0:38.0 | Somehow, one institution has become a focus point for all of these atrocities. |
| 0:43.0 | We ask, is the Ivy League destroying America? |
| 0:46.0 | We will discuss with the great Carol Swain. |
| 0:49.0 | Professor Swain grew up in a two bedroom shack in the rural south with 11 siblings, no indoor plumbing and no running water. |
| 0:55.0 | She dropped out of high school and became a teenage mother. |
| 0:58.0 | Carol then earned her GED, as well as five academic degrees, from institutions including Virginia Tech, UNC Chapel Hill and Yale. |
| 1:06.0 | She rose to teach law and political science at Princeton and Vanderbilt universities. |
| 1:10.0 | But then, Professor Swain had the goal, the temerity, the audacity to be a Christian conservative, which naturally led students at Vanderbilt to petition for her suspension in 2015. |
| 1:22.0 | The university chancellor, typically defended her at the time and she retired from Vanderbilt in 2017. |
| 1:27.0 | We will get her thoughts on the Academy, Race Relations and book recommendations. |
| 1:32.0 | Is the Ivy League destroying America? We will discuss. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show. |
| 1:37.0 | We have got a lot to talk about with Professor Swain. I can't wait to bring her on. |
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